We are again on the verge of ‘peace’ with Iran. I don’t trust it. I wish I could trust it. I trust Donald Trump to do what’s in the best interest of the United States. Maybe on paper, it all looks good, but I don’t trust it or them. I’m often accused (domestically) of essentially being a Trump fan boy. One, I don’t expect perfection out of him so there is an allowance for adjustments and mistakes. Two, he is a one-hundred-year transformative President so he deserves most of the accolades I present. Three, (counter to my fanboy image), while Trump is privy to all the information I am not and while the pending Iran deal may be the best shot within that consideration, I still do not trust any deal made with Iran, which here in this context, is the Mullahs or quite possibly, really just the IRGC. While my head acknowledges that Trump has wisely almost always deferred to negotiated deals forged by overwhelming strength instead of bombs, my gut says we should finish blowing the regime off of the face of the earth.
Titus 1:12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” **
While Crete is not Iran, or Persia according to its ancient roots, one thing we can derive from the letter of the apostle Paul to Titus is that some ethnic demographic groups have so thoroughly internalized bad character that it becomes part of all of them. In the case of Iran, whether it applies to all of them or not, I cannot tell, but of the Islamic revolutionary faction that conquered and annihilated much of all that can before, they have a lot in common with the Cretans, except the list needs expansion. They are always liars, they are evil beasts, and they boast like no one else on the face of the earth even when they cannot, and have no ability to back up what they say. They are terminally habitual covenant breakers. They cheat, lie, steal, back stab. If they claim to have a moral compass based on Islam, that compass was conceived in hell. How do you deal with that? It reminds me of medieval rituals about supposed vampires. You didn’t just kill them, you chained them to the earth below and placed a cage over the grave. Every one of those regime leaders should be buried a thousand feet below the earth in their own uranium dust.
What’s it to me? A necessary and fair question. There is no reason why any rogue nation should hold half the world hostage over a thirty-mile strip of international water and keep the gasoline I buy double what it could be. There are a lot of reasons why a whole and strong and democratic Isreal are necessary for peace and free flowing global commerce. We’ve had 47 years of Iranian mullahs holding American leadership by the balls and restricting – yes superior – America First doctrine abroad. An enslaved middle east spills into Europe and even our own shores and along with it, exporting their brands of third world corruptions into my cities and compromising officials in places where I have to walk. Sure, some of this is esoteric but some of it is not. Sometimes its needful to just do what is right, which to Trump’s credit, he’s forthrightly stated as his main motivation here all along. And did I say that there are tens of millions of Iranians that are literally dying and waiting for some of the same things I’m waiting for?
I read a piece today that compared the Trump’s whole Iran deal to his ‘Waterloo’. Frankly that is batshit stupid right on the face of it. When you wipe out a regime’s entire senior leadership and their entire military, and brought their economy and primary industry to the point of long-term generational collapse, that’s hardly a defeat. If anyone would care to offer up a counter proposal from real military history and precedent, have at it. Don’t just run your mouth with empty words like the Iranian Mullahs. What we have shaping up at this point is and imperfect peace. Imperfect peace is not defeat.
I suspect there are really two reasons for the present unsatisfactory deal in the making. One, there is a hidden critical margin of shortage in the stockpile of weaponry that would be necessary if we had to open a second or third front in any other war. This is the most logical, simple and compelling. You undoubtably have not heard this anywhere else because its off the table and would never by openly discussed because you don’t broadcast your limitations in a dangerous world. The second reason is political (domestic). There are things we can do later that we cannot do now. 2026 seems like a toss-up; even that an improvement over a couple months ago, but maybe forcing another bomb-fest now would compromise that. Trump openly says he doesn’t care about the election. Of course he does, but maybe he’s also telling the truth. He can win a midterm election cycle even with $4-$5 gas…and knows it? Maybe when that goal line is crossed, and when the bomb stores are better restocked, and the Mullahs regime has then re-mined the strait and dug up uranium, then we’ll go in and blast them into the grave for good.
There are reasons, that much I’m sure of.
** Berean Literal Bible version
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